Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 59 67
Rank change year-on-year -44 +8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,607 1,938 3,621
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.74% 4.38% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 4.73% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 972 2,701
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,375 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +14.62% -14.10%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,454 41,012 87,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 72.86% 92.64% 82.31%
Number of salaries quoted 46,240 21,844 62,402
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -42 1,462 £75,000 +0.17% 460
UK excluding London -90 773 £65,000 -7.14% 330
London -7 713 £85,000 +1.80% 192
Work from Home -31 703 £67,500 -3.57% 305
North of England -49 325 £69,310 -4.07% 110
South East -35 200 £67,500 -3.57% 98
North West -48 173 £75,000 +5.26% 74
Yorkshire -32 83 £65,000 -11.79% 22
Midlands -68 83 £67,500 -1.82% 24
South West -84 71 £52,500 -23.39% 55
North East +15 69 £65,000 -6.50% 15
West Midlands -54 58 £78,750 +12.50% 16
East of England -26 40 £60,100 +0.17% 16
Scotland -68 29 £60,000 -23.23% 17
East Midlands -69 24 £65,000 - 8
Wales -33 22 £65,000 +25.00% 8
Northern Ireland -30 7 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.56%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.06%) Confluence
3 13 (0.81%) Apache
3 13 (0.81%) CMS
4 12 (0.75%) IIS
5 10 (0.62%) JBoss
6 8 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.37%) WordPress
8 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.31%) Drupal
9 4 (0.25%) Camunda
9 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
11 2 (0.12%) nginx
11 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.37%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.31%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.062%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 858 (53.39%) AWS
2 683 (42.50%) Azure
3 302 (18.79%) GCP
4 243 (15.12%) Serverless
5 160 (9.96%) SaaS
6 157 (9.77%) GitHub
7 135 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
9 99 (6.16%) Amazon S3
10 92 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
13 67 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
14 64 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
15 63 (3.92%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (3.36%) Azure AKS
16 54 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
17 47 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
18 44 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 42 (2.61%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.73%) Broadband
2 23 (1.43%) Network Security
3 11 (0.68%) DNS
3 11 (0.68%) MQTT
4 9 (0.56%) DMARC
5 8 (0.50%) Internet
5 8 (0.50%) VPN
6 7 (0.44%) DHCP
6 7 (0.44%) Firewall
6 7 (0.44%) HTTP
7 6 (0.37%) AMQP
7 6 (0.37%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.37%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.31%) Hyperconnected
8 5 (0.31%) LTE
8 5 (0.31%) RFID
9 3 (0.19%) Modbus
10 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.12%) SNMP
10 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (13.88%) MongoDB
2 200 (12.45%) NoSQL
3 180 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (6.04%) MySQL
5 95 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
6 85 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 80 (4.98%) Relational Database
8 74 (4.60%) SQL Server
9 47 (2.92%) DynamoDB
10 46 (2.86%) Redis
11 42 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.80%) Big Data
13 26 (1.62%) BigQuery
14 22 (1.37%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.87%) Pinecone
16 7 (0.44%) Db2
16 7 (0.44%) Power BI
17 6 (0.37%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.37%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 193 (12.01%) Git
2 152 (9.46%) GitLab
3 128 (7.97%) Jenkins
4 54 (3.36%) TeamCity
5 47 (2.92%) JUnit
6 42 (2.61%) JIRA
7 38 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 33 (2.05%) Mockito
9 30 (1.87%) Cypress.io
10 29 (1.80%) Claude Code
10 29 (1.80%) Maven
11 28 (1.74%) CircleCI
12 18 (1.12%) Selenium
12 18 (1.12%) Vite
13 16 (1.00%) JMeter
14 15 (0.93%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.81%) Postman
16 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
17 10 (0.62%) Bitbucket
18 8 (0.50%) NUnit
General
1 431 (26.82%) Finance
2 295 (18.36%) Social Skills
3 158 (9.83%) Banking
4 142 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.72%) Retail
6 91 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
7 86 (5.35%) Law
8 79 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 53 (3.30%) Financial Institution
10 45 (2.80%) Back Office
11 29 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.49%) Marketing
13 18 (1.12%) Advertising
14 17 (1.06%) Billing
15 16 (1.00%) Aerospace
16 13 (0.81%) Legal
17 11 (0.68%) Games
18 10 (0.62%) Investment Banking
18 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 554 (34.47%) Developer
2 401 (24.95%) Senior
3 329 (20.47%) Software Engineer
4 230 (14.31%) Architect
5 221 (13.75%) Lead
6 139 (8.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 132 (8.21%) Java Developer
8 127 (7.90%) .NET Developer
9 122 (7.59%) Java Engineer
10 119 (7.41%) Senior Developer
11 113 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 86 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
13 75 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 69 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
15 65 (4.04%) Software Developer
16 58 (3.61%) Lead Developer
17 54 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 53 (3.30%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (3.05%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.68%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (23.21%) .NET
2 352 (21.90%) React
3 311 (19.35%) Node.js
4 271 (16.86%) Spring
5 260 (16.18%) RESTful
6 248 (15.43%) Spring Boot
7 218 (13.57%) REST
8 199 (12.38%) Kafka
9 152 (9.46%) AngularJS
10 141 (8.77%) .NET Core
11 136 (8.46%) ASP.NET
12 133 (8.28%) Vue
13 109 (6.78%) ASP.NET Core
14 83 (5.16%) HTML
15 82 (5.10%) gRPC
16 75 (4.67%) CSS
17 72 (4.48%) .NET Framework
18 66 (4.11%) ASP.NET Web API
19 64 (3.98%) RabbitMQ
20 58 (3.61%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 475 (29.56%) Cloud Native
2 277 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 75 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.80%) Over-the-Top Content
9 34 (2.12%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.99%) Data Structures
11 31 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.74%) Onboarding
13 26 (1.62%) AI Agents
13 26 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.43%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.37%) PKI
16 21 (1.31%) e-Learning
16 21 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
17 18 (1.12%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.79%) Linux
2 39 (2.43%) Windows
3 20 (1.24%) Unix
4 7 (0.44%) CentOS
4 7 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.31%) Android
5 5 (0.31%) Debian
5 5 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (50.47%) CI/CD
2 677 (42.13%) Agile
3 582 (36.22%) DevOps
4 580 (36.09%) Software Engineering
5 427 (26.57%) Full-Stack Development
6 393 (24.46%) Containerisation
7 365 (22.71%) Mentoring
8 339 (21.10%) Test Automation
9 319 (19.85%) Event-Driven
10 315 (19.60%) AI
11 305 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 301 (18.73%) Infrastructure as Code
13 279 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
14 203 (12.63%) Scrum
15 196 (12.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 196 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
16 187 (11.64%) Coaching
17 186 (11.57%) TDD
18 185 (11.51%) Clean Code
19 167 (10.39%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 539 (33.54%) Java
2 407 (25.33%) Python
3 379 (23.58%) SQL
4 357 (22.22%) C#
5 354 (22.03%) JavaScript
6 274 (17.05%) TypeScript
7 122 (7.59%) Go
8 51 (3.17%) Scala
9 47 (2.92%) PHP
10 44 (2.74%) C++
11 41 (2.55%) Bash
12 35 (2.18%) Ruby
13 27 (1.68%) C
14 23 (1.43%) Rust
15 21 (1.31%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.31%) PowerShell
16 18 (1.12%) Kotlin
17 17 (1.06%) Bicep
18 14 (0.87%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 189 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 165 (10.27%) Degree
3 128 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.73%) AWS Certification
6 31 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.68%) CISSP
9 25 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.18%) Master's Degree
11 18 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.75%) CISM
14 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.50%) PhD
16 7 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.44%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
18 5 (0.31%) GIAC
18 5 (0.31%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (6.78%) QA
2 51 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 37 (2.30%) GDPR
4 35 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.49%) NIST
7 22 (1.37%) SOC 2
8 15 (0.93%) GRC
9 14 (0.87%) NCSC
9 14 (0.87%) WCAG
10 11 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.19%) SEPA
14 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
15 1 (0.062%) Data Quality
System Software
1 456 (28.38%) Docker
2 17 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.25%) Firmware
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.062%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 491 (30.55%) Kubernetes
2 304 (18.92%) Terraform
3 87 (5.41%) Ansible
4 86 (5.35%) Grafana
5 47 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.43%) Kibana
7 22 (1.37%) Argo
8 14 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.81%) Cilium
9 13 (0.81%) Puppet
10 6 (0.37%) HP Fortify
11 4 (0.25%) Packer
11 4 (0.25%) Podman
12 3 (0.19%) Rancher
13 2 (0.12%) Istio
13 2 (0.12%) MIIS
13 2 (0.12%) Nagios
13 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 203 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 69 (4.29%) Google
3 50 (3.11%) Oracle
4 45 (2.80%) Typelevel
5 30 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.31%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.31%) Splunk
7 16 (1.00%) AppDynamics
8 13 (0.81%) IBM
8 13 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 10 (0.62%) Adobe
9 10 (0.62%) SendGrid
10 9 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
10 9 (0.56%) Databricks
10 9 (0.56%) Guidewire
10 9 (0.56%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.56%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.50%) Cisco
12 7 (0.44%) HubSpot
12 7 (0.44%) SAP